Show THE SECESSION emd ELEMENT fent ON THE PACIFIC f the union press and people of california are cor cot st antly calling the attention of 0 the world to the fact that the elements of secession exist to an alarming ex extent te a and n d u urging ia g ke nasu agu those in authority to t take m measures e r e s t to 0 suppress p it before it becomes so gigantic in proportions that it car carnot carnol not be A few weeks since the bui Bul bulletin lelin publish d a communication from a correspondent who had bad been travel traveling in g ihra through ula uga the southern part of 0 the state headed beaded 4 timely MCa measures for he the suppression of treason strong S ecea 3 i n feeling in the southern counties to which another correspondent replied as follows I 1 if it the writer of that article should travel in the middle and northern co counie he be would perhaps be surprised to fiad find how many there are ire who wio who do not hesitate to give vent to their hate liale to the federal government and express their joy at each little item of news that appears to show reverse to the union cause these people exult over disasters to the union arms with feelings ard lad lap language guage gaage perfectly fiendish and gloat over the blood spilled in ill the union c luse with the ferocity of tigers expressing freely the hope that hat no itu union lon ion soldier will bs be left alve to return from the south souta they speak and act as if in their view reb rebellion ollion and treason are j and as much their right to induce in as to bold hold all ail and A utter simple political or party opinions the diff difference trence between the two it seems to me the press and the Gover government vinent have been remiss in impressing upon the he whole people and in forcing up n the woud be rebels I 1 11 most 0 s t 0 of f t this 9 class whom the he writer has met are from the frontier states of the mississippi i valley they are generally ignorant and possessed of violent prejudices kaied an ani trained in the practices of the border they are restive under the ibe restraints 0 of f I 1 law a w and are prom prompt t to resort to the knife and the rifle hough though on on account of the influences here surrounding them les 11 so 0 berha perhaps pit than the same gaine class mentioned y r other correspondent but like them they have seized upon the best of the public lands c cf is wh ach ch they bold or occupy million millions a of acre as ranges for wild cattle and nurs nurseries erles erics ct ef treason they are averse to and in the way ofa of progress and improvement improve mel mei melt t and more than ihan any ay other class are an incubus upon the pros of the state they would to a mi man n b be followers or abettors abet tors of sterling price if they were back at their old home and they would I 1 be he a very dangerous darg erous element in our midst it if the wave of rebellion should roll westward to our shores there are not a people in thia this stae who apprehend that when uben the armies of I 1 the rebels are beaten and their power broken and the officers of both the stat stati and feder federal il authority shall be in pursuit of the part izan soldiers J hordes of them as well as other rebels wiil cross the plains to california how successful they may be in seizing upon i this thia state or of 0 breeding 0 trouble in fri it to be seen but it is certain that they would find a powerful nucleus of rf solute and reck rcck I 1 less men gorged with the bitterest hate bate to the union cause and all nho who wish it well your I 1 san bernardino correspondent hose those lett r is published in the same bame issue of your paper raper bays says of the person just elected to represent the county in the next session of the lem leg legislature the candidate elect is an out and out secessionist who on one occasion sa d that it if the tho north conquered the south he would turn out midnight assassin I 1 have heard similar expressions express ions iona from sympathizers in this thia state states and I 1 bad had my fears that acta acts of pr sonai bonal vengeance would become us as bloody ani an I 1 destructive as the war it if the power of the ithac rebels should soon be broken brokenik brok enit it is probable abie abre that the humanity and leniency of the govern mant in its ita dealin dealing with the be mass of the confederates will lead le d them to reflect upon aind and repent of their errors and become peaceable citizens in the rebel states there are many of or them however whose feelings of hate bate and are go so deep that they will not remain at home when the federal authority is restored they will be unfitted for the acts of 0 peace peat e anywhere their refuge will be on thia this coast or in mexico and they will iii lii ill probably be attended by heir leaders I 1 have said that there is here a powerful body of men deeply sympathizing path izing with ard ready to receive and wel come them should not our people be prepared to prevent any trouble from their visit |